Course Catalogue

LJMU Partner Taught

This unit provides learners with an understanding of statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Learners will also gain skills to determine compound and complex forces in civil engineering structures.

Outline Syllabus:Equilibrium and compatibility: requirements for trusses, beams and frames, principle of superposition for determinate structures, review of statics, internal loadings, stress and strain, mechanical properties of materials, axial loading, multi-axial loading. Structural stability and determinacy: statically determinate structures, shear force diagrams (SFD), bending moment diagrams (BMD) for beams, continuous beams, floor-beam systems, 3D frames, arches, trusses and roof frames. Stress and strain: constitutive relations, 2D plane stress/strain problems, struts, buckling loads of ideal struts, empirical strut formulae, strain energy, resilience, suddenly applied loads, shear flow, shear centre and combined loading, pure bending, unsymmetrical bending, bending of composite beams, elastoplastic bending, elastic torsion, elastoplastic torsion, torsion of circular shafts, elastic and plastic behaviour. Steel beams and frames behaving plastically, columns subjected to axial load, transverse load and moments. Compound and complex forces: analysis of determinate simple, compound and complex trusses, multiple system of trusses, three hinged arched trusses and 3D framework using joint method, section method and assumed force method. Analysis of continuous beams, frames, trusses. Deflection of statically determinate beams, frames, curved bars, trusses and arches, error in fabrication. Statically indeterminate beams, frames and trusses (externally and internally), using method of consistent deformation, slope-deflection method, moment distribution method, Maxwell law of reciprocal relations, settlement of supports. Influence line for simply supported beams, continuous beams, floor-beam systems, frames, series of concentrated live loads and trusses, moment charts and absolute maximum moment. Types of software: e.g. SAP 2000, PROKON, Autodesk Use of software: configuring PROKON, file management, working A structural analysis tool, features offered by Prokon in the latest version include frame analysis as well as design links of columns, beams and base.